Real world asset tokenisation has matured from white paper to working infrastructure. The question for UK founders and operators is now less whether it works, and more what the stack actually looks like end to end.

For the past three years, tokenised finance has had a structural problem: the infrastructure for digital assets and the infrastructure for traditional securities have lived in separate systems, requiring separate workflows, separate reconciliation, and separate governance. Broadridge, the post-trade

There are proofs of concept and there are proofs of function. The distinction matters enormously in institutional finance, where the gap between a demonstration and something that actually works under real-world conditions is often where promising technologies go to stall. On 6 May 2026, Ondo Financ

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation processes roughly $2.5 quadrillion in securities transactions annually. It is the central clearinghouse for US equities, bonds and derivatives, the infrastructure through which virtually every institutional trade in the world's largest capital market is settled. When DTCC moves, the industry adjusts its assumptions.vOn 4 May 2026, DTCC moved.

On 29 April 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority published Policy Statement PS26/7, confirming its final rules and guidance for fund tokenisation in the UK. The document follows the regulator's consultation paper CP25/28, published in October 2025, and marks a significant step forward in the UK's digital securities strategy. The policy statement does two things of immediate practical consequence. First, it sets out how authorised fund managers can use distributed ledger t

Tradeweb's Q1 2026 earnings call, held on 29 April, marks a different kind of moment. The platform reported $10 million in quarterly revenue directly attributed to commercial activity on the Canton Network — the distributed ledger infrastructure purpose-built for institutional digital asset deployment. That is not a pilot. That is a revenue line. What Tradeweb Reported Tradeweb Markets, which operates one of the world's largest electronic fixed income and derivatives tr

HM Treasury unveiled a comprehensive payment services regulatory integration plan on 21 April 2026 — during UK Fintech Week — designed to bring stablecoins, tokenised bank deposits, and conventional electronic payments under one coherent legal roof. The package proposes new legislation to reduce administrative burdens for firms seeking to provide stablecoin payment services, whilst expanding the FCA's regulatory powers over Open Banking developments.

The most consistent objection from traditional banks to adopting stablecoin infrastructure has been this: "We don't want to hold crypto." On April 8, 2026, Circle answered that objection directly. Circle Payments Network (CPN) Managed Payments is a full-stack stablecoin settlement platform that allows banks, payment service providers (PSPs), and fintechs to settle transactions in USDC — without ever holding or managing digital assets themselves. Circle handles the entire d

The UK’s biggest banks are quietly transforming the financial system that startup founders rely on. Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Nationwide, Santander, and Monzo are all involved in building tokenised banking infrastructure. This is not a crypto experiment or a speculative venture. It is the existing financial system being upgraded from within, using digital tokens to represent traditional assets like sterling deposits. Many founders associate tokenisation with fundrai

Most founders do not spend much time thinking about their cap table beyond the immediate needs of a funding round. It is created, updated and maintained as part of the process. Lawyers and advisors ensure everything is recorded correctly. Spreadsheets are shared. Documents are signed. The system works, but it is not particularly elegant.

Major banks, asset managers and market infrastructure providers are increasingly exploring tokenisation as a way to modernise how financial assets are issued, traded and settled. For institutions responsible for managing trillions in global capital, the attraction is not ideological. It is operational. For the UK, the stakes are particularly high. The country is the second-largest asset management centre in the world, holding 12% of global assets under management. The UK i

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